Re: ps and AIX field descriptors
On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 09:20:34AM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> On Fri 17 Feb 2023 at 10:05:20 (+0300), Reco wrote:
> > So, to answer your question - currently the only way to restore the
> > behaviour you want is to patch procps and rebuild it.
Fabulous analysis.
> Or, depending on the context, you could of course restore
> the appearance of the output with sed:
>
> $ ps -eo '%p %C' | sed -e 's/\([^ ]\+\) /\1|/;'
> PID|%CPU
> 1| 0.0
> 2| 0.0
> 3| 0.0
> 4| 0.0
> 6| 0.0
> [ … ]
Eww, GNUisms. That aside, a workaround like this is ugly and should
not be needed. This sounds like a bug in procps that should be reported,
if it hasn't already.
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